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Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 305)
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Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 365)
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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 201)
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are
ways and means of compounding such matters.
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Tartuffe (act IV, sc. 5)
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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
Author: Edith Nesbit
Source: Five of Use, and Madeline
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 79)
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Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be
interrupted.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VIII)
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source: Confessions (VIII)
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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by
them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other
account than mere delight.
Author: John Ruskin
Source: Stones of Venice (vol. I, ch. II)
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
[Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4)
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How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]
Author: Albius Tibullus
Source: Carmina (III, 6, 53)
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Author: Denis Waitley
Source: None
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Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Author: Lyman Bryson
Source: None
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Author: Wilhelm von Humboldt
Source: None
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
Author: James M. Barrie
Source: None
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: None
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
Source: None
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Author: Novalis
Source: None
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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Author: Matt Biondi
Source: None
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Author: Katharine Hepburn
Source: None
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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Author: Glen Buck
Source: None
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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
Author: John Sculley
Source: None
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Author: Humboldt
Source: None
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Source: None
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".
Author: Francis Quarles
Source: None
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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The ice does not in pain scream
when in the sun he melts into stream
nor does he in pain scream
when he higher climbs into spiraling steam.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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